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Starting a business in Nigeria

Starting a business in Nigeria

Are you an entrepreneur who is thinking about starting a business in Nigeria? And do you want more knowledge about starting and growing your business and the legal and financial aspects of running a business? The Academy of VC4A gets you on your way to success as we provide free accessible courses for everyone who aims to start a business in Nigeria. Already hundreds of Nigerian entrepreneurs made use of our platform and you are also very welcome to join us.

The content of course: engaging and both theoretical as practical

In our courses, you will receive theoretical frameworks that are cut for the Nigerian startup-ecosystem. These theoretical insights are supported by practical tips from experts. Furthermore, practical documents and templates to download, make starting a business in Nigeria a lot smoother.

Free business courses for startup founders

start a business online course

Start your business

The ‘Start your business’ course is aimed at founders who are in the phase of developing ideas and testing … More

  1. Build a great team
    • Finding a co-founder
    • Investor expectations around co-founders
    • Structuring relations with your co-founder
    • Beyond salary: Remuneration options
    • Building a complementary team
  3. Know the target market
    • Get to know your customer
    • Define your target market in ten steps
    • Measure the value of your target market
  5. Product development
    • Lean Startup methodology
    • Product development cycle explained
    • Design thinking
  7. Understand the external environment
    • Assessing the competitive landscape
    • Managing political and regulatory risk
    • Understanding market risk
Growing a business online course

Grow your business

The course on ‘Grow your business’ is for startup founders who are looking to scale their operations when t… More

  1. Marketing and business development
    • How to make sound business development decisions
    • How to expand to other geographic markets
    • How to expand to other industries
  3. Deconstruct the business model
    • The Business Model Canvas
    • An overview of different business models
    • Reasons startups fail and the pivot
  5. Strategic partnerships
    • Building successful corporate partnerships
    • How to do B2B sales
    • The importance of mentors and advisors
  7. Build traction
    • Structuring growth and traction
    • Tips for building traction
    • Growth hacking your way to success
Course Profile Finance your business image of Finance Your Business

Finance your business

The ‘Finance your business’ course is aimed at entrepreneurs who are looking to raise external capita… More

  1. Prepare financials, contracts and legal
    • The investment process
    • Valuations
    • Financial projections
    • Financial projections - Eight tips
  3. Fundraise for the business
    • Into the mind of the equity investor
    • Debt versus equity
    • Types of capital providers
  5. Pitch your business
    • De-risking your startup
    • How to prepare investor pitch deck
    • Tips on presenting in public
    • Questions to expect from investors
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Starting up a business in Nigeria: our education program supports entrepreneurs

There is extensive empirical evidence that entrepreneurship education helps Nigerians starting up a business and become self-employed (Afolabi et al., 2017). By providing this education we aim to accelerate socio-economic growth nationwide and empower individuals to develop entrepreneurial activities.

Take a look at the ventures in Nigeria to see which entrepreneurs already got going and started up a business in Nigeria.

How to start a business in Nigeria: our comprehensive training program with a certificate

Do you want to know more about how to start a business in Nigeria right away? Our online training program is freely accessible for every interested entrepreneur. You can follow the program at your own pace. You decide if you follow the courses as a whole or just the parts you want to know more about.

By completing an entire course, you will be granted a certificate of completion which is of added value to your resume. The build-up of our courses for startups in Nigeria is as follows:

  1. Start your business
  2. Grow your business
  3. Finance your business
  4. Your legal business